Matthias Klose wrote: > On 09.09.2009 03:07, John David Anglin wrote: >> > >> the testsuite on the hppa machine (gcc61 on the compile farm) has >>> always hanged for me from time to time. However, lately (at least >>> since I returned from vacation last Monday) it hangs every time. >> >> This is likely a kernel problem. There are long standing problems >> with testsuite timeouts and occassional hangs on linux. The frequency >> of these is kernel and hardware dependent. >> >>> Is this a know problem? How should I investigate such problems? It >>> makes proper testing on that platform rather impossible for me. >> >> It's very difficult as there's little relationship between cause >> and symptoms. If you come across a reproducible testcase, please >> report it to the parisc-linux list. > > if this is a debian parisc-linux system you might want to install > expect-tcl8.3 (which removes the expect package) to avoid the timeouts. > at least that works around the timeouts on the debian buildds.
BTW, there was a patch just checked in to make sure ACATS tests time out properly instead of stalling: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2009-09/msg00740.html Maybe it can help? cheers, DaveK
